Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

A Grammar of the Persian Language, to Which is Added, a Selection of Easy Extracts for Reading; Together with a Vocabulary and Translations.

London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1862. Later printing. Hardcover. Quarto. (ii) vi, 176, 40, 22, 8pp. Original green cloth with blind-stamped lettering and ruling on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Speckled edges. Black endpapers. English and Persian text on title page with publisher's info on narrow slip, pasted to lower title page. "The object of the following Work is to facilitate the acquisition of a language universally allowed to be the richest and most elegant of those spoken in Modern Asia. To the general scholar, the Persian recommends itself, from its vast stores of graceful and entertaining literature. To the traveller in the East, a knowledge of it is as essential as that or the French used to be in Europe. Lastly, to our British Youth, who annually resort to India, destined to become, in due time, the guardians of our Eastern Empire, an acquaintance with Persian is of the utmost importance." (Author). Text in English with Persian interspersed, translations of the Poetical Extracts, notes and illustrations–History of Dr. Franklin's Supplementary Chapter to the Book of Genesis–Doctrines of the Sufi Sect, p. 152. Forty pages of text in Persian, and vocabulary in Persian and English, 22 pages. Advertising of books and manuals for students in Oriental languages at rear. Binding with some wear along edges, chips and small tears, rubbed. Typical library markings, barcode, sticker, library plates, pocket and stamps. Reinforced with white library tape at gutter of front free endpaper and title page. Block slightly age-toned. Binding in overall fair to good-, interior in good+ condition. fair to g+. Item #45298

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